VanRoekel says agencies also need to focus on the mission — Focus on Service Delivery

Maximize investments — growing profit is easier than growing costs

Address the productivity gap

Improve business and citizen interactions

Cybersecurity needs to be incorporated into everything tech

Government cannot work in a silo. VanRoekel compared the data overload to the music industry.

“Right now government couples data and presentations together. But they need to break it up and find relatedness across platforms. Think of government data like the music industry. You used to buy a whole album from the store. Now you go on iTunes and you can buy one song at a time, not the whole package.”

“And with iTunes Genius and Pandora similar content is sent directly to you. Government needs to do that with data.”